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1956715London: Hutchinson 1956. First British Edition. Preceded only by the wrappered French First the British Edition was the first in hardcover and the first to be translated into English. Basis for the 1958 film noir 'Vertigo' directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. The Dark Page Vol.2 p.10-11. First Impression. Octavo; brick red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Light foxing to endpapers else Near Fine. Dustjacket is the second issue both prices clipped resulting in an uneven cut to bottom corner of the front flap; rear panel a bit soiled shallow chipping at crown and upper corner tips a tiny chip at the base of the front joint and a larger one at the lower right corner; several edgetears with attendant creasing; Very Good only. Hutchinson unknown
195411566ENew York: Rinehart 1954. First Edition - American. Ownership inscription. Pages slightly tanned very good with some faint rubbing to the corners in a lightly used price-clipped dust jacket with some shallow chips and tears and light edge wear with some darkening to the spine and rear panel. The basis of the classic mystery film Diabolique starring Simone Signoret. Uncommon. Rinehart unknown books
195587218London: Hutchinson 1955. First UK edition. Hardcover. 1955 First UK edition first impression. Signed presentation copy from the translator. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket priced 9/6. This psychological thriller by the duo later known for <em>Diabolique</em> and Hitchcock's<em> Vertigo</em> follows inventor Richard Hermantier blinded by a wartime explosion who senses his business slipping away and begins to suspect infidelity and feel an unseen presence watching him; the narrative builds paranoia as he questions what is real. Some foxing; boards very good; jacket with some wear to extremities. Good Hutchinson hardcover
1960165290London: Hamish Hamilton 1960. First UK Edition preceded by the First French Edition published as "L'ingénieur aimait trop les chiffres" in 1958.<br /> <br /> Near Fine in a Very Good plus example of the rare dust jacket. Hamish Hamilton unknown
1954119071New York: Rinehart & Company 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Pages toning. Small tear to bottom front panel. Thumb sized rub mark to spine crown. The basis of the classic mystery film Diabolique starring Simone Signoret. True first edition with the 2.75 price intact on the front flap and the Rinehart R on the copyright page. Rinehart & Company hardcover
1956BIB325679London: Hutchinson. 1956. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Price clipped dustjacket has a small chip to lower front edge and some light chipping to the spine ends. Translated from the French D'Entre les Morte by Geoffrey Sainsbury 192 pages. This was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film 'Vertigo'. Boileau and Narcejac were a French crime writing duo who created an authentic French crime fiction genre which an emphasis on local settings and psychological suspense. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st English Language Edition. Hardback. Hutchinson hardcover
195686425London: Hutchinson 1956. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good. Jacket artwork by Stein. First UK edition first impression. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket priced 12/6 i.e. second issue with 10/6 clipped and 12/6 added. First edition in English of this novel by Boileau & Narcejac authors credited with creating an authentically French subgenre of crime fiction. Famously the basis for the 1958 Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Internally very good; cloth also very good; second issue jacket with front inside flap clipped but with second issue price present a little superficial rubbing but overall very good. Hutchinson hardcover
195717051JNew York: Ives Washburn 1957. First American Edition. The novel basis of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Very good plus lightly used copy in a very good dust jacket with a couple of tiny chips and small tears. Ives Washburn unknown
1957307043NY: IVES WASHBURN INC. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Good only copy in about near fine dust jacket. 2 lending library stamps on front end paper & paste down. Erasures from pocket removal on front end paper & paste down. Offsetting to rear end paper with light remnants of pocket removal on paste down. Traces of soiling at margins on a few pages in text. Creasing to tips of some pages in text. 1"-inch tear at base of front panel of DJ. 1"-inch tear at upper seam of rear cover of jacket & flap. Faint evidence of damp soiling at base of rear cover of jacket. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." . IVES WASHBURN, INC. hardcover
1956113597London: Hutchinson 1956. First edition in English of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. The story concerns a former detective who suffers from vertigo. He is hired to follow the wife of a friend who is puzzled by her strange behavior. The detective becomes obsessed with the woman eventually falling in love with her but unable to explain her strange trances and her belief in a previous life. When she falls to her death from a tower he is unable to save her due to his fear of heights. He experiences a psychotic break. After his partial recovery he encounters a woman who is nearly the image of his dead love and he becomes obsessed with her. In the end she turns out to be the same person he was in love with--an actress who was hired by his friend in order to hide the murder of his actual wife. It was the basis for the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Attracting significant scholarly criticism it replaced Citizen Kane as the best film ever made in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll. It has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American movie of all-time. Hutchinson hardcover books
195721192New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. spine slightly turned a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped with old small internal tape repairs at spine ends no impact on text faint almost invisible vertical crease in spine light soiling to rear panel a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel. Yep it's the book from which Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO -- anointed The Greatest Film of All Time by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" panelists' poll -- was rather freely adapted. It's a must-have if you're a "books into film" collector and considerably scarcer for some reason in the American edition than in the British which preceded it by a year -- although if you're into that "true first edition" business you really ought to be on the lookout for the French paperback original Denoël 1954 entitled "D'entre les morts" literally "From the Dead." And if you think this one's expensive prepare yourself for serious sticker shock if you happen to find that one. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover
195721192New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. spine slightly turned a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped with old small internal tape repairs at spine ends no impact on text faint almost invisible vertical crease in spine light soiling to rear panel a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel. Yep it's the book from which Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO -- anointed The Greatest Film of All Time by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" panelists' poll -- was rather freely adapted. It's a must-have if you're a "books into film" collector and considerably scarcer for some reason in the American edition than in the British which preceded it by a year -- although if you're into that "true first edition" business you really ought to be on the lookout for the French paperback original Denoël 1954 entitled "D'entre les morts" literally "From the Dead." And if you think this one's expensive prepare yourself for serious sticker shock if you happen to find that one. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover books
195433642New York: Rinehart 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Page edges browned and touch of wear at the spine ends near fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch toned a bit of edgewear and small internal tape repair at the crown. An exceptionally uncommon title the first book by this French team to be published in the U.S. Basis for the classic Henri-Georges Clouzot film Les Diaboliques with Simone Signoret and the director's wife Vera Clouzot in which the two women conspire to murder their sadistic husband/lover. The film is arguably the best psychological thriller of all time and one from which many of the conventions of the genre stem. Alfred Hitchcock already well-established as the "Master of Suspense" was upset at having missed the film rights to this book and took special care to acquire the rights to Boileau and Narcejac's follow-up which became Vertigo. Later remade several times including a 1994 version with Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. A translation from the French and published before the film was released this had a very small print run perhaps as few as a thousand copies. Considering the cheap leftover wartime materials employed it is unlikely to have survived in any numbers. Rinehart hardcover
1952441Paris: Denoël 1952. First French Edition. New/very good . First Printing. A Fine copy in a Very Good example of the rare dustjacket. The jacket has one shallow chip at the crown of the spine with a light rubbing and a several short closed tears to the extremities. The French crime fiction duo's first novel preceding the American edition "The Woman Who Was No More" by two years. "Celle Qui N'Etait Plus" is the story of two women-the fragile wife and the willful mistress of the sadistic headmaster of a boys' boarding school-who hatch a daring revenge plot after enduring both physical and verbal abuse. Basis for "Les Diaboliques" Diabolique the 1955 masterpiece by directed by Henri-George Clouzot starring Simone Signoret Véra Clouzot and Paul Meurisse. A cornerstone film source title particularly scarce in the original dustjacket. Criterion #35. Denoël unknown
19541357Paris: Denoël 1954. First French Edition. True first edition of the French crime fiction duo's third novel preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. Not only is Vertigo widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece it is also routinely cited by AFI and Sight and Sound as one of the greatest films ever made. Surprisingly underrepresented institutionally; OCLC locates just three holdings in the U.S. Hubin p.39. First Impression. Octavo 17.5cm; photo-illustrated wrappers; 2221pp. Wrappers lightly rubbed at extremities and joints mild erasure to faint pencil notation at upper left corner of rear wrapper a few minor stress creases to covers and several vertical ridges along the spine; a solid Very Good copy. Denoël unknown
195489160New York: Rinehart and Company 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Page edges very slightly toned still fine in fine dust jacket. An exceptionally uncommon title the first book by this French team to be published in the U.S. Basis for the classic Henri-Georges Clouzot film Les Diaboliques with Simone Signoret and the director's wife Vera Clouzot in which the two women conspire to murder their sadistic husband/lover. The film is arguably the best psychological thriller of all time and one from which many of the conventions of the genre stem. Alfred Hitchcock already well-established as the "Master of Suspense" was upset at having missed the film rights to this book and took special care to acquire the rights to Boileau and Narcejac's follow-up which became Vertigo. Later remade several times including a 1994 version with Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. Translated from the French and published before the film was released this had a very small print run perhaps as few as a thousand copies. Considering the cheap leftover wartime materials employed it is unlikely to have survived in any numbers. This is the nicest copy we've seen. Rinehart and Company hardcover
1952161009Paris: Denoel 1952. First French Edition and correct first. <br /> <br /> "Celle Qui N'Etait Plus" was the writing team's first effort basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 masterpiece "Les Diaboliques" or "Diabolique" starring Simone Signoret. Before Clouzot had even finished making "Diabolique" Alfred Hitchcock had secured the rights to the duo's forthcoming book which would become the basis for his masterpiece "Vertigo."<br /> <br /> Fine in an especially fresh Fine example of the rare dust jacket. A cornerstone film source title and an absolutely superior copy. Denoel unknown
195474068Paris 1954. First edition of the French crime fiction duo's third novel preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by both authors on the half-title page "A Madame Cordroc 'h avec notre gratitude et l'homage de notre deferente sympathie Th. Narcejac Pierre Boileau." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In very good condition. The story concerns a former detective who suffers from vertigo. He is hired to follow the wife of a friend who is puzzled by her strange behavior. The detective becomes obsessed with the woman eventually falling in love with her but unable to explain her strange trances and her belief in a previous life. When she falls to her death from a tower he is unable to save her due to his fear of heights. He experiences a psychotic break. After his partial recovery he encounters a woman who is nearly the image of his dead love and he becomes obsessed with her. In the end she turns out to be the same person he was in love with--an actress who was hired by his friend in order to hide the murder of his actual wife. It was the basis for the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Attracting significant scholarly criticism it replaced Citizen Kane as the best film ever made in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll. It has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American movie of all-time. unknown books
1954131410Paris: Denoel 1954. First French Edition preceding all others. The French crime fiction duo's third novel preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir "Vertigo" directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. <br/><br/>Not only is "Vertigo"' widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece it recently trumped "Citizen Kane" in "Sight and Sounds" definitive once-a-decade poll as the greatest film ever made. A title that is rarely offered in commerce and for such an important film source book surprisingly underrepresented in library holdings with OCLC locating just four in American institutions. An attractive copy of a fragile volume and cornerstone film source title. <br/><br/>Near Fine in photo illustrated wrappers a paperback original. Light rubbing to the wrappers and extremities a few vertical hairline creases along the spine with a small partial ink stamp to the top edge of the text block else Fine and clean throughout. <br/><br/>In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. Denoel unknown books
1952131411Paris: Denoel 1952. First French Edition and correct first. INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine extraordinarily well-preserved example. <br/><br/>"Celle Qui N'Etait Plus" was the writing team's first effort basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 masterpiece "Les Diaboliques" or Diabolique starring Simone Signoret. Before Clouzot had even finished making "Diabolique" Alfred Hitchcock had secured the rights to the duo's forthcoming book which would become the basis for his masterpiece "Vertigo." A cornerstone film source title only the second book signed by either of the authors we have ever encountered. Beyond even this however clearly one of the first copies of the title to have been handled by anyone. <br/><br/>Pages uncut. Fine in wrappers in a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket. <br/><br/>In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 35. Grant US. Selby Masterwork US. Spicer US. Denoel unknown books
